Heard bad things about BYJUs and OYO sales teams. But these are the obvious ones

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Expect every overvalued startup to have bad sales culture

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Sales

What startup’s have bad sales org culture?

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Any SaaS sales reps here ?

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Any SaaS sales reps here ?- Grapevine

Bad Culture, Politics, etc. Give some names that one should avoid at all costs.

What are the worst B2B startups?

Consultant

Graphy has forced a 30% salary cut on each employee to achieve profitability this year. This cut will be applicable from February onwards until 7-8 months. 

Truly a sad time for the Edtech ecosystem.

30% Salary Cuts at Unacademy

I repeat: 
  
 If you have options, avoid joining EdTech companies. 
  
 If you're already working for one, exit at first opportunity. 
  
 Indian EdTech companies are largely sweat shops in fancy office buildings.

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Program Manager

Which startups/companies in b2b SaaS space hiring salespeople / sales leadership?

Sales Leader

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I am starting up soon. I care about working on meaningful problems, with good people and building the right culture. 

Have been hearing from a lot of folks about culture problems in startups. Seems more of a norm rather than an exception. 

Curious to know why do startup culture degrade? What pitfalls should I avoid to create a healthy culture?

Why do startup culture go bad?

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How's the culture at LeadSquared? Saw their Glassdoor reviews and they sound scary.

Culture at LeadSquared

Product Manager

will help potential job seekers to avoid the startup and save many lives. lot of blessings from everyone to whosoever calls out toxic workplaces

Which startup has the most toxic work culture?

Software Engineer

Just a curious question, I like the idea of working for startups and building new teams, I am seeing massive layoffs and toxic culture news around , any good bets in-terms of work culture?

Are there any Indian startups with good work culture ?

Founder’s Office

Recently caught up with a friend who works for an “employee friendly” HR tech company. This brand has been boasting about how great they are with the sort of employee benefits they offer. The founder specially keeps boasting about this on LinkedIn and Twitter. 
Found out yesterday, that the employee benefits come at a cost of micro management and a toxic environment at the workplace. Really sad to see the perceptions that the brands create and the reality they offer. 

Would you prefer:
1. Few employee benefits with no micromanagement? Or
2. More employee benefits at the cost of micromanagement?

Insider tea from an “employee friendly” startup

Number one definitely. 
  
 Is this springworks?

Marketing Creative

Business Development Manager

Why is it that startups only get to hire the Sales and Marketing team with a limited budget of their VC or PE funding and why do they consider the Sales department not important. 

Do you think a service or product based startup can start getting revenue and customers without a proper sales and marketing team? 

And on what basis do Startups qualify selecting a sales and marketing team. Since I have seen and interacted with a few of the funded startups sales team and I feel they are below standards and just bothered to reach their targets set by the company. 

Would you like to have an organization where you can find a set of talented and well coordinated team you choose and build a sales team like a drag and drop and they work for you. With a profile of the person visible to you. Would you like to have a service offering like that. 

Seeking opinions from founders of the startups of any stage like self- funded or bootstrap or VC or PE rounds ...

Do the startups lack in hiring efficient Sales and Marketing team?

I've just started working at a series A startup (with ops/sales heavy business). While it's still a start-up, coming to the office in person 6 days/week (alternate sat off) and mandatory 9 hour attendance on Zoho is something that puts me off. 

People just want to stamp time, rather than actually be efficient and get most things done. And because is all this, the speed is also slow. 

Curious to know if it's just me or do all series A startup after hitting 50 employees become mini corporate

Culture at Series A startup

Product Designer

After going through so many posts on grapevine..I feel like all the startups in India are toxic only 😕😕

Really want to know which are the startups worthy of joining? Preferably in product roles

Non toxic startups in India?

Can anyone share for the benefit of those who are keen to avoid making mistakes..

Start up with most Toxic Work Culture

Growth Manager

I recently worked at a startup and it was terrible. 

To be honest, I still worked at one of the better ones but it just sucked. 

Some of the clear downsides I see 

- Survival mode leads to chaos. You can be treated anyway and asked to leave whenever  even though you left big opportunities to be here 
- Brand loss to find next job (Big problem)
- Trying to make you feel unworthy(Doesn't bother me but I have seen people lose self confidence)
- Loss of opportunity to build real skills like building sustainable teams for the long run

I think over all working at a startup especially early teams is a losing proposition. Do it only if -
 - you know the founders/team well 
- you know the industry and market well and it is a bet you personally believe in
- you are secure enough in life that if you go back to your job, you will easily get employed 


For middle class kids, startups are the worst bets one can take.

Working at startups is terrible

Looking to move on and apply for jobs but kinda worried I'll join an organization with shit culture. Please name a few, you know, have good culture. Would really appreciate:)

List of Startups/Companies with great culture

Marketing Associate

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Going through a few rounds of interview for a senior position at Newton School and just wanted to know how is the work culture in there? Anything that I should be looking out for?

Newton School

Which companies have a decent work life balance and decent pay

Companies with WLB

I recently got laid off from my Company (they are unfortunately shutting down all major operations apart from sales) 
I worked to improve the company culture - benefits, engagement, learning and dev, wellness, cross team and inter city collaboration. 
Now that im job hunting, Im finding it incredibly difficult to find roles where the title of "people and culture" justifies the job description that is followed. Most often, the JD is an operations role where you only work on managing employee data, help with recruitment etc. 

So that brings me to the question - which are some of the startups that are truly looking to have a good culture and are open to hiring fresh talent?

Which Startups care about their company culture?

People & Culture Manager

One of the old employees dropped a bomb of an e-mail against the entire leadership of PhonePe Mass Offline leadership addressing about mental harassment, hostile comments, threatening to sack, and pushing employees to have no work life balance. This mail was sent to the Founder Sameer Nigam and the HR Head.

Ex Employee shares a mail about workplace culture and toxicity at PhonePe

Respected Sir/Madam, 
 I am writing in regards to the current environment at our (PhonePe) workplace. I believe that there are several factors that could be addressed to create a better environment for employees, and I would like to bring these issues to your attention. 
 First, Our Top Management Leader Mr XYZ, ABC & STU is mentally harassing employees 
 and intimidation are common occurrences in the workplace. This is in the form of hostile comments, threatening to sack, creating undue pressure. It is creating a detrimental effect on employee morale and productivity. 
 Secondly the work-life balance is often out of balance, with long working hours (8:00 am to 10:00 pm and limited opportunities for relaxation or breaks, it is leading to burnout and stress-related illnesses. It is essential that employees are given reasonable working hours and frequent breaks to ensure their physical and mental wellbeing. 
 Fourth, These managers shout at employees on occasions by calling them on calls and asking random questions and harassing. This type of behavior is not conducive to creating a productive environment within the org. It only serves to create an atmosphere of fear and anxiety among employees. It is important that managers treat employees with respect and professionalism at all times. 
 Lastly, to say - Sales is a continuous process and it fluctuates day on day depending upon good and bad weather, political environment, absentism in team etc but managers above and down the line shout only for numbers without recognition for our hard work. This is leading to burnout and discontentment among employees who feel taken advantage of or undervalued. 
 Furthermore these action have had severe consequences in those leaders personnel family relationships, causing irreparable damage of their own life is trying to damage life of others by ruthless behaviour and poor decisions. 
 Finally I have decided to leave the organisation and I hope this will be taken into consideration when creating a p

List of companies I can apply that has a better pay package and culture?

I'm an AE at Salesforce. 38 LPA with 55/45 split and 5.5 YOE. Entire sales culture is beyond toxic & humiliating.

What are some of the Startups known for their terrible work environment? Apart from the usual suspects in the edtech space.

Any SaaS sales reps here ?

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